30 Funny And Relatable Anti-Work Posts For Anyone Who Hates Working, As Shared On This Online Group
Having a job can be both a blessing and a curse. A few lucky ones have managed to pave the career path they have always dreamed of, but the rest are just putting on a clean shirt and fake smile combo and barely getting through the eight-hour bender five days a week.
While having a meaningful job ranked 13th out of 29 sources of happiness in a global survey, only 40 percent of American workers say that they work in good jobs, according to this survey. Many reasons can be to blame, from poor pay to unfair treatment, long working hours, and job insecurity.
Luckily, for anyone who feels that way about their job, here is a safe place to talk about it. Welcome to the Free From Work subreddit which, according to the description, “is the right place if you hate working!” Created back in 2021, the community is still pretty young, but it already features impressive content that is “mostly memes and tweets to brighten up your day.”
Below, we wrapped up some of the funniest and most soul-soothing Free From Work posts that work like a band-aid for our overworked souls.
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More people than we think have been in a position where the hatred for their job became overpowering. For some, it happened suddenly, for others it started from the first day at work, while for most employees, the sense of loathing came gradually but became too strong to ignore.
So in order to find out what to do in such a situation, how to navigate a job you don’t like or even hate, and when is it better to part ways with it, Bored Panda spoke to Christine Mitterbauer, a licensed and ICF-approved career coach based in the UK.
Every other first world country on the planet has this .. except the US.
From her experience as a career coach, people often start hating their job when there’s a clash between their personal values and the values of the company or sector they work in, Mitterbauer argues. “The longer this goes on, the more the dislike, or even hate, can grow.”
“Another common reason people hate their job is that they have a hard time with specific people, a boss or colleagues they work closely with,” she said and added, “Whether it’s better to quit or not is a matter of your life circumstances and whether you can afford to quit, but of course, it’s better to notice your dislike for your job growing before it becomes all-consuming.”
According to the career coach, there can be good reasons for keeping a job that has neither good pay nor good terms: “jobs in certain sectors, for example, the arts or education, don’t always pay well but they might give you a big sense of meaning and satisfaction.” Mitterbauer argues that “if those are values you treasure, that might be enough reason to keep the job despite the salary being low.”
My job is not exhausting at all compared to others, and I know I'm lucky for that. But it's clearly eating up my intellectual energy. I used to draw from time to time, and write short stories. Now I casually come home at 7 in the evening with zero creativity.
Start looking for all the big companies you don't really need to spend your money for on a daily basis, and thus could boycott permanently until they pay their taxes and decent wages to their employees. That seems a fair and quite satisfying thing to do.
I heard that growing up, people could pay rent on a single income and work good hours. I'll never have that life. I wake up every day knowing that it's only a matter of time until I turn 15, and then I need to start working. Otherwise, I'll never afford college. I want to become a psychologist and live in a nice apartment with a cat. But the most I'll ever be is an anxious, depressed McDonald's cashier.
When asked what to do when after years a person suddenly develops a sense of not liking their job anymore, Mitterbauer’s advice is to get clear on your values – what is truly important to you in life.
“I often use the Wheel of Work, which shows people several aspects and values of their job, and then we discuss each in turn, how important it is to them, and to what extent it is being met now. Money, creativity, culture, creativity, etc. Through lots of conversation, you lay out on the table what values are truly important and which ones are less important.”Mitterbauer argues that if you hate your job, there’s a good chance this is because there’s a clash here. “It’s never too late to change, and you can start making small changes today,” she concluded.
I think they actually did invent that flavor of Monopoly. To try to profit on the sadness. Doubt the board is fun enough to be flammable more than once though
With the benefit of hindsight, if there was an evacuation order then any manager who forced the workers to remain under guard should absolutely be liable for their deaths, and the very company should be sued and prosecuted out of existence. Natural disaster in reference to the storm and its effects is accurate
I don't believe in laziness. I believe in inactiveness, which is usually a product of something the individual is not happy about.
Agree, but maybe "Inactiveness" should be "inactivity"
Load More Replies... This reminds me of the story of Harper Lee. Her friends gave her a years salary so she could write, and out comes To Kill a Mockingbird. She didn’t want to “not work”, she wanted to do Her work
People say lazy. I say sometimes you don't know how much work it takes some people just to exist. You don't know their life, their story.
when co-workers my age or older (50's) complain about those lazy younger people that don't deserve to be depressed ... I remind them that when we were their age we didn't have the amount of drugs in the world they do now. We didn't have mass shootings every day, sometimes even in the school we were in. We didn't have jobs that refused to pay us living wage so we would have to live with our abusive, drug-addicted parents. Etc etc etc. they shut up.
“Don’t deserve to be depressed” makes it sound like a good thing :(
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People call me lazy for ''only'' working 28 hours a week while I am still single and have the oppertunity to work full time. Why would I do that if it costs me my health before and I can make ends meet with 28 hours too?
That's so dumb. A guy in the comments of a Dutch News site said that yesterday. Women have to work full time! Why? He got really mad. You don't give me a cent. Why do you complain and whine, that you work more for your own wealth? Go work less too if I irritate you. I used to work 32 hours a week. Since kids 24. My kids are teens now. I want to work more, but then the govt steals it to pay my ex's benefits. Have to wait 3 years. Then he's 67. I'm crazy Henkie not. I rather sit on my lazy a*s and chill. Not gonna work for nothing. Money wouldn't even go to the kids.
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I've seen it happen, you work and work until you are to old to work anymore and you still lose your house ,car and health .you do not become rich from working.
Some people are lazy because they don't need to do anything, having made a fortune exploiting their workers (or inheriting the money from someone who did). These are also the people who call those workers who ask for a livable wage "lazy".
There is a book on this, “Laziness does not Exist,” which I highly recommend.
Low iron, anemia, is often mistaken as a behavior issue. Anemic people are often thought of as lazy and withdrawn, when they literally don't have enough oxygen getting into their cells.
IMO, "unmotivated" is the best word to describe what capitalists call lazy
No, I've met lots of lazy people, had the displeasure of working with some
There was an experiment where a human was put in a white room with no other distraction or activity than a device that would shock them everytime they touch it.... They would play with it... Get shocked... Wait 5 min top... Then go back to quibble it again. We can't stand boredom! Stop saying we're lazy! Lazy isn't part of human nature
I'm sorry, but my son-in-law is lazy. He finds every excuse in the book to take a day off at least once a week, every week. (He's home as I'm writing this). Fortunately my daughter and grandchildren have a very good work ethic. That's what's lacking in this society, a good work ethic, it's very rare these days.
I see the point here... but I'm a lazy little s**t. It definitely exists in some degree
I admit that there are times that I am lazy. There are times I sit around when I could be doing something else, but I don't want to. Though as a stay at home mom most of my activity has nothing to do with capitalism anyways. Survival yes, capitalism no.
I'd agree, and I do, but there are the exceptions. I work with a 19 year old male who is in great physical condition at a summer camp for kids. His family is very wealthy, as evidenced by the fact that he went to a 36k dollars a year HIGH SCHOOL. The boy is lazy. L. A. Z. Y.
Idk. Idle rich are a thing. Lobbing that accusation at poor people who have reasons they can't work though...
Ya my brother would sit playing video games, pissing in a mountain dew bottle and throwing his snot rags within inches of the trash can. Believe in laziness or not, it still exists.
I'm intrinsically lazy, seriously. But I'm also exhausted, overworked and the other things...
When people are alienated from their labor of course they aren't gonna care. That's not laziness, that's being human.
That is not true. Those are excuses for people who somehow think they were born for other people to not be lazy and support them. THIS IS NOT HOW LIFE WORKS. Grow up, people. You’re embarrassing, not special. God: A man who will not work shall not eat. That’s HIS take. Mother of two sons who support themselves, they have adulting DOWN. You’re welcome, society!!!!! I didn’t raise parasites.
No, laziness is a thing. If you can find time to watch Netflix...you can find time to learn q new skill. If you can find time to sleep in on the weekends, you can find time to study investments or something weather related. I learned how to code while working for Amazon, while in the military, going to college and helping my wife raise 3 kids. STOP. MAKING. EXCUSES. And stop blaming the rich for your problems.
That must be an American thing? We never gave out awards like that, that's ridiculious.
And I'm always baffled by all these Hollywood movies, praised by massive audience and making billions of juicy dollars, while most of them carry very specific anticapitalistic messages that should start revolutions right away at the exit of the movie theatre.
Capitalism doesn't work, communism doesn't work, democracy doesn't work, socialism doesn't work... I think our "leaders" don't work.
"Save things for a rainy day!" Meanwhile, it's 24/7/52 monsoon season.
Ooof if I had 10.000 dollars, my life would do a 180! Debts paid, teeth fixed, bills paid...
Construction companies do the same. One subsidiary owns all the assets, heavy equipment, scaffolding, etc. The other subsidiary, with different, unrelated officers, operates as HR. Came up in a Federal case where I had the misfortune of serving on the jury.
Read an economic article that stated the lack of workers is due to...... the Boomers! The boomers that were close to retirement, went ahead and retired. The boomers that were retired, but had a hobby job, quit that job. This is because they were high risk to covid and they didnt want to take the chance. So, the boomers are really the ones "who don't want to work." Meanwhile, essential Mcdonald employees worked through the whole pandemic.
Sadly true. And then dudding you with lies to the next workplace before you even got there.
I'm a boomer and I keep stirring all I can. Yes, I was lucky in many ways to be born in that era but it came with a lot drawbacks too - rampant sexism (pun intended), "greed is good" business ethics (same as now), slimy tactics by Church accepted at face value, overpopulation, shortsighted future planning and more. Maybe YOUR grandkids (if any) will look back on YOUR generation as a Golden Age. "OK, Millennial." So what can we ALL do to change things? I strongly advocate a more spiritual approach (NOT religious!) because sooner or later we will be coming back to sort out whatever has been left - a mess, if we do nothing, and maybe some better pathways if we do.
Used to DM at a buddy's place before the 'vid ended all human contact. One time, there was almost a TPK and his cat got on the table and carried off the mini for the BBEG.... I decided that was canon and they party was saved by the indifferent cat god. Haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
I wonder what would happen if every millennial declared bankruptcy - simultaneously?
To be fair, if you think FICO scoring is bad, it was even worse before that. Hard to believe, I know.
It's just a job. No matter how much you work or love it, it will never love you back. It's only your life and other people who matter. In union is strength, which is why the original people who started unions were victimised by the elite and their minions, jailed, murdered (judicial executions, assassination), transported as convicts and vilified in the elite owned press. In the USA, unions have been effectively muzzled and demonised over the generations but in truth, though they are as subject to corruption as any other human enterprise, vital progress re labour laws has been made. But eternal vigilance of the workers is necessary. Be courageous and persevere. Change comes. As Mandela said "It's always impossible until it's done."
"That depends. If it's a once in a while situation when I can help my team, sure, I don't mind. But if it's a daily expectation it means the company is understaffed or mismanaged, and has no intention of changing that."
Something I learned later on in life is that an interview or job offer is just as much you deciding if you want to work there. So ask questions. Ask how long people have worked there (it tells you A LOT if people quit after a short time), ask what's expected of you, ask what's in it for you. Is it possible to advance? Do they offer development in your field? If the pay is off you tell them, if you don't agree to any of the terms - tell them. You can negotiate now, just accept whatever is a thing of the past. OFTEN they will change/work with you on whatever is off if you tell them BEFORE you sign or agree. They are interested in you - that's why they offer the job and recruiting is expensive and hard. If they picked you it means they need you and if they won't agree to what you expect (in reasonable amounts) someone else will. This goes especially if you have education and experience. And never settle for less than you've had before.
Im gonna start my own business probably and have a small farm so i can sell things at the farmers market i think it's an okay idea
That's a huge trend to do exactly that right now! Check out the number of young people selling sustainable goods at your local farmers market to find your community
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Minimum wage shouldn't be an absolute value. It needs to be connected to the inflation index and updated monthly. It needs to rise and fall based on how well the economy is doing. Salaries need to be flexible as well.
I was recently told about a woman who resigned because she wanted $19 an hour instead of $16. Her employer said that the extra $3 per hour wasn't what she actually needed. They said that she needed benefits and that they couldn't provide them. They didn't fire her. I'm fascinated by that interaction.
Most of these had valid points, but the payroll deduction for the gift card was misleading. I've had gift cards given as a bonus. There is the amount of the card added as income before taxes, then a deduction from net pay. This is done to pay taxes on the gift card. Is that fair? No. But neither is making misleading memes. Misinformation is misinformation, even I agree with the sentiment.
Something I learned later on in life is that an interview or job offer is just as much you deciding if you want to work there. So ask questions. Ask how long people have worked there (it tells you A LOT if people quit after a short time), ask what's expected of you, ask what's in it for you. Is it possible to advance? Do they offer development in your field? If the pay is off you tell them, if you don't agree to any of the terms - tell them. You can negotiate now, just accept whatever is a thing of the past. OFTEN they will change/work with you on whatever is off if you tell them BEFORE you sign or agree. They are interested in you - that's why they offer the job and recruiting is expensive and hard. If they picked you it means they need you and if they won't agree to what you expect (in reasonable amounts) someone else will. This goes especially if you have education and experience. And never settle for less than you've had before.
Im gonna start my own business probably and have a small farm so i can sell things at the farmers market i think it's an okay idea
That's a huge trend to do exactly that right now! Check out the number of young people selling sustainable goods at your local farmers market to find your community
Load More Replies... Minimum wage shouldn't be an absolute value. It needs to be connected to the inflation index and updated monthly. It needs to rise and fall based on how well the economy is doing. Salaries need to be flexible as well.
I was recently told about a woman who resigned because she wanted $19 an hour instead of $16. Her employer said that the extra $3 per hour wasn't what she actually needed. They said that she needed benefits and that they couldn't provide them. They didn't fire her. I'm fascinated by that interaction.
Most of these had valid points, but the payroll deduction for the gift card was misleading. I've had gift cards given as a bonus. There is the amount of the card added as income before taxes, then a deduction from net pay. This is done to pay taxes on the gift card. Is that fair? No. But neither is making misleading memes. Misinformation is misinformation, even I agree with the sentiment.
